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" unless," he says, " the location of the glabella and axes should 

 be considered as of generic importance," a feature which is or 

 is not present in so many forms from rocks in the Girvan succes- 

 sion, ^glina occurs in Ordovician strata of Quebec group age 

 in Canada. 



Traquair, R. H. — " Fossil fisJies of the Moray Firth area" 

 being a reprint from the " Vertebrata of the Moray basin " by 

 Messrs. Hardie, Brown and Buckley. As Prof. Claypole remarks 

 (Amer. Geol. July 1896, p. 31): "Prof Traquair has here 

 summed up to date our knowledge of the fossil fishes, chiefly 

 Devonian, of Scotland, etc." 



The oldest fish remains were found in the Orcadian lower 

 old Red beds of Cromarty and occur in limestone nodules. A 

 note goes on to say that this Orcadian series was deposited " in 

 a large lake of Lower Devonian age." The Bale des Chaleurs 

 basin in l*".astern Canada is probably similar in origin to this. 



Hinde, G. J. — Descriptions of new JossHs from the Carb. limestone. 

 O. J. G. S. London, Vol. LI I, pp. 438 to 450 and plates 

 XXII and XXIII, Augu.st, 1896. 



Contains interesting descriptions and notes on the structure, 

 affinities and geological relations of (I) Penmiatites constipatus, N. 

 sp. ; ill) Paleacis Iiuniilis, N. sp. ; (III) Eunicites Re'idiae, N. sp., a 

 lithiitiJ spoigc, a perforate coral and the jaw apparatus of 

 an annelid. 



Matthew, G. F — Notes on Cambrian Faunas — the Genus Micro- 

 discus. Amer. Geol., Vol. XVIII, No. i, pp. 29-31, July, 

 Minneapolis, 1896. 



Selwyn, a. R. C (Dr.)— C.M.G., F.R.S.— " On the origin and 

 evolution of Archaean Rocks ivith remarks and opinions on 



